[Daffynition]

The silver piedfort marked Charles IV's ascension to the French throne in 1322

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Garden Ping!

[JennysCool]

The Act gives a finder 14 days to inform the local coroner of potential treasure and creates an offence of failing to carry out that duty where this is not followed.

Is there anyone sane left in Britain?

[Travis McGee]

Remember when “Rule Britannia” said that “Britons never never shall be slaves?”

Scratch that. They are all slaves of The State now.

[LukeL]

So if you find a coin on your property its a crime, if you find a gun and bring it to the police its a crime. A group of Muslim teens and 20 somethings go around and rob and beat random people and it is something to look into. Gotta love England.

[JoSixChip]

Looks like a coin to me.

[Doogle]

..."hey kate, go out and bury it somewhere, then flip'em the victory sign"

[GeronL]

So she was 9 years old at the time she found this, the law hadn’t even be dreamt up 14 years ago.

Ex Post Facto prosecution??

[Renegade]

Just makes you want to go postal on someone doesn’t it ?

[sodpoodle]

Retroactive punishment. She found the coin before the law was enacted. The UK government has gone nuts.

With the state of UK education and the elimination of history from the curricula, I’m surprised there is anyone alive who could identify what she found.

[higgmeister]

The Act gives a finder 14 days to inform the local coroner of potential treasure and creates an offence of failing to carry out that duty where this is not followed.

Was that 14 days to report to the Coroner after going forward in time to find the law had come into effect?

Did the law stipulate that a nine year old minor was required to report a find in the event that her mother had not?

Is it any wonder why we abhor and despise Socialism and lament the tragic destruction of the British Empire?!

[jakerobins]

So wait....If you find something that people can loosely define as “Treasure” in the ground on YOUR Property you can be arrested? You are required to report it to the state? Are there no property rights in Britian? I know there are certain “rights” that walkers have to walk on others properties to hike on trails......

Excuse me Judge I would like to site the Landmark case of Finders/Keepers.....LOL

[Question Liberal Authority]

It's 1.4 grams, round, old, and made out of silver. It sure as heck looks like a coin.

These laws are idiotic. In some countries, people find ancient silver and gold items. Then they melt them down to evade the law.

No group of people are more knowledgeable about antiquities than collectors of antiquities. Private collectors conduct more actual research than tenured history professors.

[Lazamataz]

Kate Harding, 23, was prosecuted under the Treasure Act after she ignored orders to report the coin-like artefact to a coroner.

Why a coroner? Are they planning on killing the finder?

[apillar]

Of course the moral of the story is if you find treasure on your property in England DON’T TELL ANYBODY! Take it with you on your next trip out of country and sell it.

[BRL]

I guess you are still a peasant in Jolly Old England

[Dallas59]

Pure craziness....Is the same Britain that could be in for a tussle with Argentina?

[SunkenCiv]

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[philetus]

Finders Weepers

[excopconservative]

Haven’t they ever heard of finders keepers?

[spaced]

Sorry, Brit experts. Piedforts ARE coins, just as proofs and essais are coins. They have a value and can be spent (or in the case of this one, could have been spent.) Piedforts (or pieforts), essais and proofs are not intended to be spent; contemporary ones are issued by a number of countries INCLUDING THE UK for sale to collectors. However, just as a US gold Liberty can be exchanged for merchandise worth face value, you can spend a piedfort pound.

Just another example of the nanny state terrorizing citizens.